GREEN v. WASH. SUB. SAN. COMM'N

[No. 19, September Term, 1970.]

259 Md. 206 (1970)

269 A.2d 815

GREEN ET AL. v. WASHINGTON SUBURBAN SANITARY COMMISSION ET AL.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided October 14, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas R. Taylor and Alger Y. Barbee, with whom was R. Edwin Brown on the brief, for appellants.

James S. McAuliffe, Jr., with whom were Heeney, McAuliffe & McAuliffe on the brief, and Paul T. Sisson for appellees Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission and Errol W. Jeffcoat.

James F. Couch, Jr., with whom were Couch, Blackwell & Miller on the brief, for appellee Marbro Company, Inc.

Laurence T. Scott for appellee Laurence Smith, Jr.

Joseph B. Simpson, Jr., with whom were Simpson & Simpson and George Seymour Morgan on the brief, for appellees Carlton R. Bohrer and Claude Pickett, Jr.

No brief filed for appellee David Rooney.

The cause was argued before HAMMOND, C.J., and BARNES, McWILLIAMS, FINAN, SINGLEY, SMITH and DIGGES, JJ.


DIGGES, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The fracas that resulted from Harry Green's attempt to prevent the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission from laying a water line along the roadway in front of his home in Damascus, Montgomery County, Maryland should not serve as an example of how to combat the encroachments of state and county government into the far reaches of suburbia. Had this been a less volatile situation we might only have been faced with the...

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